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Catalyst announced the winners of the prestigious Catalyst Award, given to innovative, effective, and measurable initiatives to advance women. The 2004 Catalyst Awards will be presented to General Electric Company, Harley-Davidson, Inc., and Shell Oil Company.

The 2003 Catalyst Census of Women Board Directors of the Fortune 500released today shows that women now hold 779 board seats or 13.6 percent of Fortune 500 seats, an increase from 12.4 percent in 2001. The number of seats held by women of color has increased, from 2.5 percent in 1999 to only 3.0...

Women’s advancement in the high tech industry is not keeping up with the fast pace of technological change, according to a new study released today, Bit by Bit: Catalyst’s Guide to Advancing Women in High Tech Companies.
Corporate culture, recruitment and development missteps, isolation and ...

The Catalyst Board of Directors today appointed Ilene H. Lang as President of Catalyst, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization focusing on women’s private sector leadership. The founding CEO of AltaVista Internet Software Inc. and a First Light Capital venture partner, Lang will officially...

Women of Asian origin are one of the fastest growing groups in the U.S. labor force, but make up only 0.29% or 30 of the more than 10,000 corporate officers in 429 Fortune 500 companies who supply this data each year. A new study by Catalyst, Advancing Asian Women In The Workplace: What Managers...

Seven years after Catalyst’s groundbreaking study defining the barriers and success factors for women in corporate America, Catalyst’s new study Women in U.S. Corporate Leadership: 2003 finds senior women and CEOs finally agree women have been in business long enough to climb the corporate ladder...

As the Hispanic population in America continues to explode, more and more managers are exploring ways to tap this growing talent pool and capitalize on the unique experiences of Latinas in business. But as the talent pool grows and marketing dollars to Hispanics increase, Latinas at the top of...

After a decade of working to advance women in business, Catalyst President Sheila Wellington has decided to step down from the Presidency of Catalyst to return to the world of academia. Ms. Wellington is planning to leave Catalyst this summer to take a clinical professorship in management at New...

Women hold 14 percent of corporate officer positions in Canada (752 out of 5,746 corporate officers), a two percent increase since 1999 according to the Catalyst Census of Women Corporate Officers and Top Earners of Canada, released today. This second-of-its-kind census provides an accurate...

Catalyst celebrates its 41st year of promoting women in business by announcing the winners of this year’s prestigious Catalyst Award given to outstanding companies implementing innovative, effective, and measurable initiatives to advance women. The 2003 Catalyst Award winners are: Accenture,...

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How Cultures Can Support Their Women in Leadership Recently, I've read two excellent articles on why women stay quiet at work which clearly outline the challenges women can face in leadership... Full Post

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Working for the weekend? Not necessarily.🎶 Everybody’s working for the weekend 🎶 Apparently not. Study shows that those who are happy in their careers find just as much pleasure during the... Full Post